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Disappointing by Celtican	Oct 22nd, 2007 04:03:48 AM
Which is a shame cause the guy has a pretty good track record.
That second reviewer is a complete moron... by PoweredUpPacman	Oct 22nd, 2007 04:26:51 AM
...with his 'kick ass' and 'bad ass'. Too stupid to be a plant, and too stupid too take seriously. Guess that means the movie sucks...
THE SECOND REVIEW SUMMED UP: by Ray Gamma	Oct 22nd, 2007 04:35:16 AM
"yes, Tits and a Shotgun - verryy nicceeee)" THAT ABOUT SUMS UP THE LEVEL OF INTELLIGENCE NEEDED TO WATCH THIS MOVIE.
re: PoweredUpPacman by Ray Gamma	Oct 22nd, 2007 04:36:55 AM
if the second reviewer is a plant, it would confirm that the filmmakers think we're all a bunch of hormonal 16 year old boys with ADHD.
I want to see see in site of the divided opinions circulating by KillaKane	Oct 22nd, 2007 04:51:33 AM
I love the genres Marshall's mashing up in this obvious homage to his fave apocalyptic 80's flicks. I'm sure it'll have plenty of redeeming qualities as well as flaws, even if it comes across as more Bronx Warriors than Mad Max. It's a genre that has'nt really been tackled in such a direct 'fanboy' way before and I'd like to see this kind of folly (if it is such) because of it. I was entertained by both Dog Soldiers and Descent and Marshall's the closest thing the Brit film industry has to a genre director in the tradition of John Carpenter, working with small budgets but squeezing out as much production value as he can. He's stuck to his guns, I support him for this and will continue to do so as long as he continues to make the type of films he has.
I want to see this in spite of the divided opinions circulating by KillaKane	Oct 22nd, 2007 04:53:28 AM
Apologies for the previous header, speed typing without my morning cup o' Joe!
Seems like it's one of these "Love it or hate it" movies. by DerLanghaarige	Oct 22nd, 2007 05:25:18 AM
And I always appreciate stuff like that.
Straight to DVD bargain bin by metaluna	Oct 22nd, 2007 05:25:36 AM
Nuff said. This guy is too busy trying to ape other films and genres than be truly original rather than derivative. He'll always be a poor mans John Carpenter at best, and by that I mean JC after his best work (post 90's).
re: Ray Gamma by PoweredUpPacman	Oct 22nd, 2007 05:27:32 AM
...even hormonal 16 year old boys with ADHD have standards...and they would flay this fucker alive if they suspected he was targeting them.
"Rhona Mitra gets hotter and hotter... by DocPazuzu	Oct 22nd, 2007 06:35:21 AM
...as she sweats and battles through it all." Sold!
Dug descent by ButtfuckZydeco	Oct 22nd, 2007 06:48:34 AM
He'll get my money just on the strength of that one. Here's the one sheet: http://tinyurl.com/ypha9j Author and writer, buy the fucking book!
Genius or Crap, I can't wait for Neill Cumpston's review by ImFixingtoDie	Oct 22nd, 2007 07:42:31 AM
Something about the combination of shotguns and tits makes me think he'll like it.
BARROWS? by SpazmoCalrissian	Oct 22nd, 2007 08:09:04 AM
do u mean borrows one reviewer doesn't know his geography, the other can't spell. smmh
Top secret data has revealed that people are actually alive and by don_gately	Oct 22nd, 2007 08:12:42 AM
WTF? Is this film set in 1822? Top secret data? You mean like satellite photos?
Who the fuck gives a shit?!?! by dundundles	Oct 22nd, 2007 08:15:56 AM

I give a shit!!! by TheHorror	Oct 22nd, 2007 08:30:39 AM
With the likes of complete cocksuckers such as Eli Roth & Rob Zombie - Marshall is my last hope for someone else to make some REAL horror, I'll be going into the theatre with high hopes - if it's bad...god help all horror fans, everywhere!!!!!!
Hells bells, I thought this was a Superman thing. by Snookeroo	Oct 22nd, 2007 09:26:36 AM
Wrong Doomsday. Carry on.
Straight-to-DVD movie with a theatrical release budget? by Knuckleduster	Oct 22nd, 2007 10:40:33 AM
Hey, it's the guy who made The Descent. I'll definitely give this a go, if only to see Rhona Mitra all dirty and sweaty (even though she probably isn't the best choice for lead actress). And the whole Road Warrior meets Escape from New York angle gets my cooch wet. Besides, it can't possibly be worse than that other Straight-to-DVD big-budget fiasco (that somehow managed to get put up on screens everywhere). You know which one I'm talking about, right? That's right. Ghost Rider. I don't care how (maybe) awful Doomsday is; let's not forget who the real movie-hacks are, folks.
Sounds like it's close to Cumpston's dream movie. by Christopher3	Oct 22nd, 2007 11:37:45 AM
A pair of sentient boobs with a machine gun and a mechanical eye fighting off cannibal Scotsmen in the future.
THE DESCENT WAS AWESOME by BringingSexyBack	Oct 22nd, 2007 12:06:25 PM
A bit over the top, but effectively conveyed the sense of claustrophobia pretty well. Good psychological thriller. There were no monsters, the bitch killed her friends.
This is frustrating . . . by Nice Marmot	Oct 22nd, 2007 12:10:21 PM
. . . I love Marshall's work and his intentions w/ this new one, but I've read nothing but bad to mediocre reviews of it w/ the exception of this last one written by Beavis. And did Marshall have to pay homage so blatantly w/ the gang leader having a mohawk? Anybody know a release date or when we can expect a trailer?
tits and a shotgun.. by ironic_name	Oct 22nd, 2007 12:11:49 PM
..two bits! http://tinyurl.com/285bk6
rhona mitra is a spanner by ironic_name	Oct 22nd, 2007 12:13:33 PM
she makes my nuts loose
Memories-Of-Murder by TheNorthlander	Oct 22nd, 2007 04:14:21 PM
I have to say I'm with Moriarty. Transformers was an awsome action fest and The Descent was good until Gollum showed up with his cousins. The movie didn't need that. The scariest part was the first time the cave collapsed, and the rest was just them running around getting killed and acting stupid. If we at least hadn't been overexposed to the gollums, it'd be more like Blair Witch. Oh well. I guess opinions are like assholes.
TO QUOTE 'Nice Marmot'... by Ray Gamma	Oct 22nd, 2007 04:51:16 PM
"This is frustrating . . . by Nice Marmot Oct 22nd, 2007 12:10:21 PM . . . I love Marshall's work and his intentions w/ this new one, but I've read nothing but bad to mediocre reviews of it w/ the exception of this last one written by Beavis. And did Marshall have to pay homage so blatantly w/ the gang leader having a mohawk? Anybody know a release date or when we can expect a trailer?" LOL! "Beavis" ... you hit the nail on the head there... LOL! re: the gang leader having a mowhawk: This is absolutely right. This kind of detail was silly and goofy EVEN IN THOSE EIGHTIES MOVIES AT THE TIME. It always spoiled those post-apocalyptic movies when the 'enemy' turned out to be a group of 'post-apocalyptic biker punks' with mowhawks and a token asian girl with a sword or something. I mean, COME ON FOR THE SAKE OF FUCK MAN. OH THE HUMANITY.
Northlander... by VegasRon	Oct 22nd, 2007 07:36:11 PM
...so you liked Transformers and didn't like The Descent. Which also isn't as good as Blair Witch. Check.
2030 ? by Mace Tofu	Oct 22nd, 2007 08:31:38 PM
In 2040 people in London will laugh at this movie because things will not be that bad in 2030 just like NY didn't get walled up in 1997. Don't date your Sci-Fi movies... just do the MAD MAX " a few years from now..." title card
VegasRon by TheNorthlander	Oct 22nd, 2007 09:17:36 PM
Yeah. The Descent had a lot going for it, but the overexposure of the gollum creatures really ruined it. Not saying it's a bad film, but it could use a re-edit where you see much less of them. That would totally make that film A LOT scarier. Like in Alien, where you pretty much never see the whole thing until the end, or Ringu where you never see Sadako's face or Blair Witch where you don't ever see anything - it's all played out in your imagination. In The Descent we see the whole thing full frontal pretty early. So yeah, that ruined it for me.
BringingSexyBack by TheNorthlander	Oct 22nd, 2007 11:14:24 PM
How did you get "there were no monsters, the bitch killed her friends"? I didn't get that at all...
Superman Doomsday by CuervoJones	Oct 23rd, 2007 01:57:45 AM
That´s a good Superman movie.
This movie will be cool if... by CuervoJones	Oct 23rd, 2007 02:13:18 AM
we see REAL boobs. I´m sick of silicon tits.
Cuervo by Lost Jarv	Oct 23rd, 2007 05:42:17 AM
Don't watch this then- Mitra's daddy bought her hers (I'm not joking either). ANd WTF is with the revisionism of Marshall so far- The descent was fucking magic- it pissed all over any other Horror film released in 2005. Even Dog soldiers, as low-rent as it is, is a sparkling little movie. It's FUN not like the insipid shitty torture porn that is sadly everywhere. This is truly fucking bizarre. BTW Northlander: Blair Witch was pretty fucking dismal with an incredible final sequence- I pathoogically hated that film until the very end.
Need to see a trailer for this...soon by KillaKane	Oct 23rd, 2007 05:48:57 AM
I think that'll go some way in either stoking the detractors or winning over fans to the concept and it's execution.
I think Mohawks are cool. by Knuckleduster	Oct 23rd, 2007 06:26:42 AM
But only really big mohawks, not little ones...
Nope, I watched the original ending first. by TheNorthlander	Oct 23rd, 2007 08:03:00 AM
And I'm not american. Still didn't do anything for me. I did like it better than Dog Soldiers though, and I intend to see Doomsday hoping he's learnt to be a bit more subtle in his filmmaking. And I'm really not being appologetic about Transformers. It simply rocked.
We're talking about Bayformers again? by Knuckleduster	Oct 23rd, 2007 08:10:54 AM
How'd that happen? Oh, hi there, Memories-Of-Murder.
Re: Transformers by TheNorthlander	Oct 23rd, 2007 08:16:06 AM
So Transformers is a visual film, so what? Michael Bay makes visual films, and he's really good at it. 300 was a visual film too, with little emphasis on the story and more on what you look at. So was Hero. That doesn't make Zhang Yimou or Zach Snyder hacks. Nor does the fact that Bay chooses to use explosions and wide angle shots of large vehicles going across the Arizona at sunset instead of symbolic colors or cartoon blood. There are a ton of hacks out there getting good jobs regularly (Tim Story, Len Wiseman, W.S. Anderson, Uwe "everybody hates me so I'm gonna punch ya in the mouth" Boll, Renny Harlin to name a few), but Bay is really good at what he does. In a perfect world, he would have made Die Hard 4 together with the REAL Bruce Willis (the one that wasn't kidnapped and replaced with a dummy by the same aliens that did that trick on Elvis and Michael Jackson).
Northie- by Lost Jarv	Oct 23rd, 2007 08:39:49 AM
You have a dubious taste in films-Bay is not really good- almost everything he has made has been dreck- with the arguable exception of Armageddon. That said, I don't want to argue about the merits of Bay (again), so can we agree to differ? I sort of agree with you about the overexposure of the creatures- but I think it was number of them, rather than appearance time. Literally every time one of the women turned around there was another cave beast. There must have been fucking millions of them down there. However, it didn't bother me as I was thoroughly enjoying the movie- and the proper ending is creepy enough to forgive any overexposure. Compare it to Creep- and you will see what I mean. Creep exposes the monster so early that it has to rely on scenes of sub torture porn drivel to cause a wince, and has all the tension of a pancake. On the other hand, The Blair shit project bored me to fucking tears, I hated all 3 central characters and the film gave me seasickness. So, although I usually like being treated as if I am not a fucking idiot, my brain was popping up with unhelpful comments such as "why are you watching this tedious dreck" MOM- It's been nearly 6 months. Let it go. Please god, let it go.
aaargh Armageddon? methinks not. Sorry by Lost Jarv	Oct 23rd, 2007 08:42:22 AM
fuck me. I deleted the wrong film. I deleted a paragraph slaying that abortion and realised it was hackneyed crap so deleted it. Sorry. That post should have read: You have a dubious taste in films-Bay is not really good- almost everything he has made has been dreck- with the arguable exception of The Rock. That said, I don't want to argue about the merits of Bay (again), so can we agree to differ? I sort of agree with you about the overexposure of the creatures- but I think it was number of them, rather than appearance time. Literally every time one of the women turned around there was another cave beast. There must have been fucking millions of them down there. However, it didn't bother me as I was thoroughly enjoying the movie- and the proper ending is creepy enough to forgive any overexposure. Compare it to Creep- and you will see what I mean. Creep exposes the monster so early that it has to rely on scenes of sub torture porn drivel to cause a wince, and has all the tension of a pancake. On the other hand, The Blair shit project bored me to fucking tears, I hated all 3 central characters and the film gave me seasickness. So, although I usually like being treated as if I am not a fucking idiot, my brain was popping up with unhelpful comments such as "why are you watching this tedious dreck" MOM- It's been nearly 6 months. Let it go. Please god, let it go.
I much preferred DIE HARD 4 to Bayformers by Lost Jarv	Oct 23rd, 2007 08:44:06 AM
but will either of them be remembered fondly in 10 years? I don't think so
Like it or not... by Knuckleduster	Oct 23rd, 2007 08:53:49 AM
... Bayformers probably will be fondly remembered in 10 years, even if only by drunk, nostalgic fratboys who were kids when they saw it. I'm curious about the two different endings of The Descent? Can anyone tell me how they differ?
Lostie by TheNorthlander	Oct 23rd, 2007 08:57:57 AM
You're right, let's wait until the sequel. I'm sure there will be more than plenty Transformers arguments then. I watched Creep, actually. Rented it about 6 months ago together with my girlfriend. Damn that was awful. One of those movies where it's blatantly obvious that the filmmakers have a phobia and they take for granted everyone else is afraid of the same thing. (in this case Tomophobia, where you're afraid of surgery, and yeah I looked that word up) I've got a theory about The Descent and The Blair Witch Project. If you've spent a lot of time in the woods, especially woods similar to those in the movie, you're more likely to get into BWP. If you don't like closed spaces, or if maybe you've spent time in caves or something like that, maybe The Descent works for you a lot better. Maybe that's why those films only work on some people.
btw you didn't like Armageddon? by TheNorthlander	Oct 23rd, 2007 05:23:44 PM
soon you'll tell me you didn't like Independence Day either, or Starship Troopers.
Whoa, hang on. by Knuckleduster	Oct 24th, 2007 07:00:50 AM
Don't associate the brilliance of Starship Troopers with standard Hollywood product like Armageddon and Independence Day.
DocPazuzu: sweaty Rhona Mitra by mbeemer	Oct 24th, 2007 11:13:45 AM
Yes, I think I will see this. Someday. On DVD. But sweaty Rhona Mitra has much to recommend it.
I love the differences by necgray	Oct 24th, 2007 07:57:38 PM
of opinion hereabouts. Lost Jarv, I actually really liked Blair Witch. Now I understand that some people didn't, but I don't think it has much to do with whether you've been camping or not. That helped, obviously. I think I enjoyed it because 1) it's a horror movie that relies on tension instead of FX 2) fiction films being shot documentary-style were more rare, certainly not wide-release and 3) it dealt with the subject of urban legend/folklore. That's cool that you didn't like it, as long as you weren't like the droves of assholes in every fucking theater I went to who stood up, talked back at the screen, and then left loudly. Like, okay, you don't enjoy the movie. Well, leave quietly and don't fuck it up for the people who ARE enjoying it. At the same time, I totally agree about Transformers. Not the greatest film ever, but I DID enjoy it. Of course, MOM's gotta be on here with his ridiculous "bayformers bayformers foam-at-the-mouth bayformers" bullshit... And for the record, MOM, although the Euro ending of The Descent is better, you're talking out your ass by implying that the U.S. ending ruins the film. It's a weaker ending, but everything up to that point is still really great.
MOM and Michael Haneke by necgray	Oct 24th, 2007 07:59:57 PM
Now that I think about it, MOM, you should go and have a make-out session with Michael Haneke. You guys would love each other with your anti-American b.s. I'm no flag-waver by any stretch, but you have a wonderful way of being a dick about American film.
Interview with Marshall by JelalTrueshot	Oct 25th, 2007 02:54:44 AM
There is an interview with Marshall about the flick here: http://www.gamingshogun.com/D efault.aspx?a=365 His description is one tall order though: "...it's Escape From New York by way of Mad Max by way of The Warriors." I am immediately put off by such a description. Something like that makes me think the film is bad so he is trying to implant the notion it is like these other great flicks to increase sales.

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